Hometown Heroes: American Authors

A

James Agee

Becky Albertalli

Louisa May Alcott

Sherwood Anderson

Maya Angelou

Isaac Asimov

B

James Baldwin

L. Frank Baum

Saul Bellow

Ambrose Bierce

Judy Blume

Ray Bradbury

Charles Brockden Brown

Pearl S. Buck

C

Truman Capote

Raymond Carver

Willa Cather

Michael Chabon

Kate Chopin

Beverly Cleary

James Fenimore Cooper

Stephen Crane

Michael Crichton

Christopher Paul Curtis

D

Clarence Darrow

Don DeLillo

Kate DiCamillo

Philip K. Dick

Emily Dickinson

John Dos Passos

Frederick Douglass

Theodore Dreiser

W.E.B. Du Bois

E

T.S. Eliot

Black Elk

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

F

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Benjamin Franklin

Robert Frost

G

John Green

Zane Grey

H

Alex Haley

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Ernest Hemingway

O. Henry

Robert E. Howard

William Dean Howells

Langston Hughes

I

John Irving

Washington Irving

J

Shirley Jackson

Henry James

Thomas Jefferson

Sarah Orne Jewett

K

Helen Keller

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Stephen King

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jon Krakauer

L

Louis L’Amour

Gary Larson

Harper Lee

Stan Lee

Elmore Leonard

Sinclair Lewis

Abraham Lincoln

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Jack London

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Audre Lord

H.P. Lovecraft

M

Norman Maclean

Norman Mailer

David Mamet

Cormac McCarthy

Carson McCullers

Larry McMurtry

Herman Melville

Arthur Miller

Margaret Mitchell

Toni Morrison

N

O

Flannery O’Connor

Eugene O’Neill

P

Thomas Paine

Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

Katherine Anne Porter

Ezra Pound

Thomas Pynchon

Q

R

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Anne Rice

Philip Roth

S

Louis Sachar

J.D. Salinger

Carl Sandburg

Maurice Sendak

Dr. Seuss

Shel Silverstein

Neil Simon

Upton Sinclair

John Steinbeck

Wallace Stevens

R.L. Stine

Harriet Beecher Stowe

William Styron

T

Booth Tarkington

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

John Kennedy Toole

Mark Twain

Anne Tyler

U

John Updike

V

Kurt Vonnegut

W

Alice Walker

David Foster Wallace

Robert Penn Warren

Eudora Welty

Edith Wharton

E.B. White

Walt Whitman

John Greenleaf Whittier

Thornton Wilder

Tennessee Williams

William Carlos Williams

Thomas Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

Herman Wouk

Richard Wright

X

Y

Richard Yates

Z

Howard Zinn

Add:

Ayn Rand

Laura Ingalls Wilder

John Berendt

Fannie Flagg

Lowis Lowry

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